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No rehabilitation for surrendering Tigers?
Wednesday, 15 August 2007 - 5:14 AM SL Time
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Youth fleeing the LTTE and surrendering to the Human Rights Commission (HRC) in Jaffna have to languish in the Jaffna prison instead of undergoing proper rehabilitation as the government has no mechanism for such a purpose, Human Rights sources in the North revealed.
So far, a total of 52 males and one female, all below the age of 30, and many fleeing the LTTE, have surrendered to the HRC office in Jaffna. Once in HRC custody, the victims are handed over to the police, produced before a Magistrate and sent to the Jaffna prison, Human Rights sources in Jaffna told the Daily Mirror yesterday. Two youths, aged 18 and 21, from Chavakachcheri and Kaithady, surrendered to the HRC yesterday, and were handed over to the Jaffna police. Victims are kept in a separate section of the prison, under the custody of prison officials, while HRC officials make fortnightly visits to monitor their well-being, sources said.
The government, to date, has not put in place a mechanism for victims to undergo a process of rehabilitation, although many face the trauma of death threats and are victims of torture, the sources added. This is despite the HRC Jaffna office updating the HRC in Colombo and the Human Rights Ministry on the situation through regular reports. The last such report was filed on August 3, but no action has been taken to date, sources added.
The situation also poses a danger of the HRC being unable to accept more victims, due to prison overcrowding, sources said. The prison building itself is a makeshift complex of three houses surrounded by a parapet wall, leased by the Prisons Department from a private owner.
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Wasa
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15 Aug 2007 13:52:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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| GOSL should make a good facility in a safe place to rehabilitate these youths who have been brainwashed by LTTE. Unless GOSL make appropriate arrangements to protect them from LTTE and rehabilitate them both mentally and physically, future will not be a better place them. |
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15 Aug 2007 14:38:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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There is an urgent need for GOSL to take necessary actions and prepare for a significant inflow of people from the Vanni region.
The real challenge is to clearly define the selection criteria which separates an innocent Tamil civilian from a former LTTE guy. |
nirupam
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15 Aug 2007 14:46:14 GMT Report for Abuse
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| According to the parents of these surrendees the youths seek custody from the SLA and the rearmed EPDP. How can there be any LTTE in SLA controlled areas of Jaffna as the SLA constantly cordon and search for them. There are some retired Sinhala Judges in the HRC want to do propaganda at the expense of these victims. |
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15 Aug 2007 14:55:58 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Yeah nice spin on this, they are running from the CRIMINAL STATE, not the LTTE, liars. |
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15 Aug 2007 15:25:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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Human Right sources in the north reveled.
Where the heck you get Human Right sources in the North?
North still under LTTE.
And also these Human Right idiots in north have forgotten that Prison is also called reformatory. Place where govt. reform criminals.
First thing is Govt. have to investigate whether these surrender LTTE carders have committed any crimes when they were with LTTE. Till then they have to be in the prison but not in five star hotels in Colombo. Prison is the safest place for these guys.
No other place is safe.
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15 Aug 2007 16:23:27 GMT Report for Abuse
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| 1 more pathetic handling. Our (Sri Lankan) government has always been late to do the right thing. Like having translators at each government place to help people speaking minority lanuages. They never learn from mistakes. They talk about doing big things, but never pay attention to small things that make a big impact. All these young people should be made part of economy any where in the contry before it is too late for them or the country. |
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15 Aug 2007 21:01:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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Whom does the president protect by prolonging the investigation and tampering with the evidence of the killing of 17 aid workers inn Mutur last year?
Identifying killers is core issue: ACF
Action Against Hunger (Action Contre la Faim - ACF) whose 17 aid workers were killed last year, said in a statement that though it agrees to cooperate with the Government, the core issue was to identify and prosecute the perpetrators of the killing.
The statement says that it had been informed of a letter sent by Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) Secretary General Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha to Human Rights and Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe that was publicly released to an unknown mailing list.
?The previously declared position of ACF remains the same that ACF fully agrees to cooperate and to answer questions related to the Mutur killing, within the framework of an independent and international inquiry. However, the core issue remains the identification and prosecution of the perpetrators through an effective criminal investigation led by the Sri Lankan Government?, it added.
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15 Aug 2007 22:06:59 GMT Report for Abuse
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Susith
I agree This is the only way we can make this right. We as sinhala has neglected our Tamil people for too long now. These youth have suffeded and took huge risk by surrendering so GOSL it?s the putting right that counts now. Before it?s too late!
Edited By - randy - 15 Aug 2007 22:07:34 GMT |
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15 Aug 2007 23:01:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Yes, Karuna ran from the criminal state, and so is now Soosai :-) |
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16 Aug 2007 00:01:40 GMT Report for Abuse
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GOSl should turn them to a military battalion like Gurkha's.
As they are fed with weapon training and killer mentality. Than rehabilitating them, easy to turn them into a guerrilla battalion.
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